Flyboys a true story of courage
(2004, original release: 2003)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.54/BRADLEY,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Back Bay Books, 2004
EDITION
First Back Bay paperback edition
DESCRIPTION
404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316159432, 0316159433 :, 0316159433, 1417665246, 9781417665242, 9780316159432
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 2003. With new afterword by author concerning identity of executed "unidentified airman" (Warren Hindenlang) and Glenn Frazier
Tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific in World War II
CONTENTS
Declassified --
Civilize-ation --
Spirit war --
Third dimension --
Rape of China --
ABCD encirclement --
Flyboys --
doing the impossible --
Airpower --
Yellow devils, white devils --
To the Pacific --
carrier war --
No mans land --
No surrender --
Kichiku --
Fire war --
Enduring the unendurable --
Casualties of war --
Afterword to the paperback edition
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SUBJECTS
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Japan -- Chichi Island
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Chichi Island
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Biography
Chichi Island (Japan) -- History, Military -- 20th century
Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography
Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Chichi Island -- History -- 20th century